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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a federal criminal statute barring the gun ownership by people subject to domestic violence restraining orders is unconstitutional. The statute, which applies to people deemed to be a credible threat to their intimate partners, isn’t consistent with the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
‘Watch this creep’: the women exposing gym harassment on TikTok
Alaina Demopoulos /
The Guardian
One study from 2021 found that 76% of women feel uncomfortable exercising in public due to harassment. In another survey from Run Repeat, 56% of women reported facing harassment during their workouts.
A police force is investigating claims firefighters photographed women who had died in car accidents and shared the images on a WhatsApp group. In the group, male firefighters are alleged to have made degrading comments about the victims, incluing "type of underwear the women are wearing."
Despite full integration order, women in special ops face many barriers
Joe Davidson /
The Washington Post
Despite a Defense Department directive that took effect in 2016 to “fully integrate women without compromising our readiness, morale or war-fighting capacity,” less than one-tenth of the 78,000 U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) members are women, compared with about 19 percent military-wide, according to a watchdog report.
The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to restrict women from tertiary education.
At a panel of world leaders at Davos, moderator Fareed Zakaria from CNN kept calling the women by their first names and the men by their titles. Studies show that this pattern of not using women’s professional titles is part of the bias that is holding women back from achieving gender equality.